Are willing to type backwards. They have something about the Arabic support on the Illustrator product page but they keep talking about the ME version.

It is time that they realize that though Arabic is not as widely spoken as Chinese or Spanish or English it comes pretty close and is listed as the 6th most widely spoken language and it is spoken worldwide

and having this capability would serve other languages as well.

The type engine has to be updated and it is a good time to present that idea to Adobe